Show A MAN with each succeeding year the name of lincoln las grown dearer to the american people until tor the an nl wary of his birthe those whom war had once surrounded with prejudices have come to consider him an honest upright fearless noble inan and one of the grandest characters in the history of nations much of his benign and nature he is said to have inherited and imbibed from his mother who is described as a woman of fine physical organization and of great force 0 character and possessed withal of shrewd practical combined with a deep religious feeling and great gentleness of manner his mother died when lie was a mere child but the lessons of virtue and nobleness which she him by time were not erased some tell us women have no voice in the destinies of this nation or in the directing of public affairs without the ballot yet here we have depicted an influence that lived beyond the grave and bore fruit that gave a nation a man whose impulses were grand and beneficent beyond compare and back of it all waa an incomparable mother who needed neither ballot nor suffrage to w kid a power t atwould colba nolba deflected miscounted or offset by inferiority and which by example has become more potent for bood than any influence we know of that hag called the mothers of the land from the nursery since arb thomas lincoln beckoned her boy to her side and counseled him in the duties of life all that I 1 am or hope to be I 1 owe to ray sainted mother were the worda of fond recollection be uttered when made president lincoln was defeated for the legislature in the campaign of 1834 in illinois butchen but when his true worth became knon he was afterward repeatedly elected to that body he wag homely eloquent wise and good a combination velch gave him an unique distinction in public life we find he was not what would be termed a party man and did what some politicians would today deride observing that the whig party was evading and obscuring the slavery question he became one ot the organizers of an independent party having a single issue and confined to a single state and was known as the republican party of illinois the declaration of independence and hostility to slavery extension was the platform of the new party and strange to say this circumscribed single idea party became so powerful that it absorbed ono of the old parties swept the political field and laid the foundation of the present republican party on the day of april thirty one years ago lincoln was sent to a premature grave by hilkea booth an aenas sin the tragic ending of his life waa not all a misfortune it inflicted years of anguish upon his family and was accompanied compa nied by heart throbs and bemoan ings among his countrymen but if be had lived until this hour he would have been 87 years of aee a white haired old man hanging at the brink f the grave and while the country would have had alio benefits of hia judgment and honesty of purpose during all these years human nature which abounds in jealousies and rivalries and can only be softened and made to give full honor to whom honor is due by the intervention of death and the surcease that marks alie silence of the grave would have withheld from him the attributes of character cha racier that the world now concede to him and the elevating tendencies which the recital of his noble life have given to this generation would have been deferred his biography should be read by every in the land and his temperate habits made the subject of ethic discourses in the schools that his character may be |